Piety's hard enough to take among the poor who have to practice it. A rich man's piety stinks. It's insufferable.

Journalism wishes to tell what it is that has happened everywhere as though the same things had happened for every man. Poetry wishes to say what it is like for any man to be himself in the presence of a particular occurrence as though only he were alone there.

Writers . . . write to give reality to experience.

Piety's hard enough to take among the poor who have to practice it. A rich man's piety stinks. It's insufferable.

We are as great as our belief in human liberty - no greater. And our belief in human liberty is only ours when it is larger than ourselves.

Around, around the sun we go: The moon goes round the earth. We do not die of death: We die of vertigo.

The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.